堆
duī HSK5

heap, pile

堆 duī
pile noun
a heap or stack of things

那位老人站在一堆跟房子差不多高的砖上。

nà wèi lǎo​rén zhàn zài yī duī gēn fáng​zi chà​bu​duō gāo de zhuān shang.

The old man stood on a pile of bricks almost as high as a house.

to pile up verb
to stack, heap, or gather items together; to accumulate

你想堆个雪人吗？

nǐ xiǎng duī ge xuě​rén ma?

Do you want to build a snowman?

[pile/heap] measure word
classifier for heaps, piles, or crowds of people

他迅速上楼，跨过玩具和一堆堆衣服，正在找他的妻子。

tā xùn​sù shàng lóu, kuà guò wán​jù hé yī​duī duī yī​fu, zhèng​zài zhǎo tā de qī​zi.

He quickly headed up the stairs, stepping over toys and other piles of clothes, looking for his wife.

mound
(bound form) a small hill or mound; frequently used in place names
large amount
(figurative) a large number of things or problems; a collection of issues

Cross-References

Same as

Frequency
Character
Written text
1,370th most common 87.4 per million
Movie subtitles
1,282nd most common 61.7 per million appears in 30% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
69.3 per million appears in 26% of films
Written text
24.7 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 5
HSK 3.0
Level 5
Strokes
11
Unicode
U+5806

Sources
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)